- 哀 āi: 哀 Ai1: Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘[Li2]哀 āi: 哀 ai1: (bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole
- sign; indication; symptom
- to give birth without complications; easy childbirth; safe delivery; natural birth (without surgical operation)
- telecommunications; telecom
- pass; gateway; (fig.) juncture
- long moan and short gasp (idiom); continually moaning and groaning in pain
- to be afraid; to be frightened
- to set; to set up; to install; setting; preferences
- to elapse; to pass away; to die; demise
- burning hot; scorching
- all; without any exceptions; categorically
- to send (on errand)
- clothes and ornaments
- altar lamp burning day and night
- sad; sadness; sorrow; grief
- artistic mood or conception; creative concept
- to sublimate; sublimation (physics); to raise to a higher level; to refine; promotion
- to hope to reach; to strive for
- ashtray
- to press down firmly; to suppress; right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大[da4])
- to seem; to be like
- to realize suddenly; to wake up to the truth; to suddenly awake from sleep
- confused; ignorant
- to offer an explanation; to plead innocence; to try to defend oneself
- to escape; to run away; to flee
- to give a favor (used of Christian God)
- morning and evening; (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days; (coll.) (this, or that) point of time; (dialect) at some time in the future